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Gardai helicopter used to drown out speeches

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Saturday March 22, 2003 20:51author by Analyst Report this post to the editors

Gardai flew a helicopter sufficiently close to the lorry carrying speakers at Dublin's Antiwar march today to obscure the public address system. A protester complained that the speeches were being drowned out to the senior officer on the march and were assured that the helicopter would be moved. The helicopter flew away a few minutes later.

author by patriotpublication date Sat Mar 22, 2003 21:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors


Yeah - only after about 5 minutes and after the crowd gave the helicopter crew the finger and shouted abuse at them.

author by Chemical Alipublication date Sat Mar 22, 2003 21:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It might have been useful.

author by sniper at workpublication date Sat Mar 22, 2003 23:01author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Shure wasn't that a favorite tactic of the British Army in the Six Counties ....
Nice to see the Free Staters following the good example ...

author by damienpublication date Sat Mar 22, 2003 23:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

still is

author by xxpublication date Sun Mar 23, 2003 01:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If you remember correctly, as I was at the march at Dublin myself, the extremely long speeches were over when the Garda helicopter came along. What march where you at????????

author by Sparkspublication date Sun Mar 23, 2003 14:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The garda helo was overhead twice - once at college green where it didn't really drown much out as it wasn't low enough, and once over the government buildings where it hovered low enough to drown out the speeches made there. And frankly, if that wasn't a deliberate act, the pilot is incompetent - and I don't know many pilots that can have that label applied to them.

author by Saidhbhinpublication date Mon Mar 24, 2003 14:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

...but weren't the speakers a bit longwinded? Speeches should not be to glorify the speaker, and with so many speakers should be brief and to the point. Who wants to go to a demonstration to listen to lots of terrible speakers say the same thing 50 different ways(each) and wait around 50 minutes before the march even gets underway?!! At least keep it to the end!
Although with the amount of latecomers perhaps the delay was needed....

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